Asian category: 13860 books
ASEAN's Diplomatic and Security Culture
Origins, Development and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Member states of ASEAN - the Association of South-East Asian Nations - have developed a distinctive approach to political and security co-operation, which builds on the principles of sovereign equality, non-intervention and non-interference, quiet diplomacy, mutual respect, and the principle of not...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate (in 1913 for literature) can well be deemed a ‘cultural icon’; he embodied and articulated an integrated conception of human culture through his charismatic personality and manifold creative works. Tagore’s vision of human life stems from the...
Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India
Kindred Spirits in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting edge scholarship in the field of German--Indian and South Asian Studies*,* the book looks at the history of German--Indian relations in the spheres of culture, politics, and intellectual life. Combining transnational, post-colonial, and comparative approaches,...
State, Economy and the Great Divergence
Great Britain and China, 1680s-1850s
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
State, Economy and the Great Divergence provides a new analysis of what has become the central debate in global economic history: the 'great divergence' between European and Asian growth. Focusing on early modern China and Western Europe, in particular Great Britain, this book offers a new level of...
Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border
Karafuto / Sakhalin
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In the nineteenth century, as the Russian empire expanded eastwards and the Japanese empire expanded onto the Asian continent, the Russo-Japanese border became contested on and around the island of Sakhalin, its Russian name, or Karafuto, as it is known in Japanese. Then in the wake of the Second...
Pan-Asianism
A Documentary History, 1920–Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
This second volume in a two-volume set provides the only comprehensive, Western-language history of Pan-Asianism through primary sources and commentaries. The book argues that Pan-Asianism, often—though unfairly—associated with the Yellow Peril, has been a powerful political and ideological force...
The Transformation of the International Order of Asia
Decolonization, the Cold War, and the Colombo Plan
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
In Asia the 1950s were dominated by political decolonization and the emergence of the Cold War system, and newly independent countries were able to utilize the transformed balance of power for their own economic development through economic and strategic aid programmes. This book examines the interconnections...
Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia
Education, Health, Housing and Income Maintenance
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Social Policy in East and South East Asia provides the first systematic comparison of the policy sectors of income maintenance, health, housing and education in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. It focuses particularly on the provision and financing arrangements of these four Asian newly...
Media, War and Terrorism
Responses from the Middle East and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
This collection of essays covers the media and public debate dimension of the events of 9/11 and beyond, from the point of view of Middle Eastern and Asian countries. The first part of the book deals with the use of the media as an instrument of warfare, the growing significance of religion, the emergence...
Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia
Rediscovering the invisible believers
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This book uses gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the socio-cultural foundations of Buddhism. Moving away from dominant discourses that discuss women as a single monolithic, homogenous category—thus rendering them invisible within the broader religious discourse—this monograph...
Pan-Asianism
A Documentary History, 1850–1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
This first volume in a two-volume set provides the only comprehensive, Western-language history of Pan-Asianism through primary sources and commentaries. The book argues that Pan-Asianism, often—though unfairly—associated with the Yellow Peril, has been a powerful political and ideological force...
In the Shade of the Golden Palace
Alaol and Middle Bengali Poetics in Arakan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Alaol (fl. 1651-71), who translated five narrative poems and one versified treatise from medieval Hindi and Persian into Bengali. The book maps the genres, structures, and themes of Alaol's works, paying special attention...
by Mark Chung Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This book explores the ways through which Korean American men demonstrate and navigate their manhood within a US context that has historically sorted them into several limiting, often emasculating, stereotypes. In the US, Korean men tend to be viewed as passive, non-athletic, and asexual (or hypersexual)....
Food Culture in Colonial Asia
A Taste of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine between 1858 and 1963. Domestic cookbooks, household management manuals, memoirs, diaries and travelogues...